Past projects 31
Bring Art to STEAM
Funded Feb 9, 2022Thank you so much for your generous donation to our middle school STEM Club. The arts materials really helped us bring more STEAM into our club! We meet twice a week and students often request the art activities - we even had a full arts day where every station was an art activity. This is something we could not have done without your support.
The perler beads and plates have been particularly popular. This station often fills up first and has an ongoing waitlist of students excited to develop their spacial reasoning and design skills as they create beautiful pixel art. Students have also enjoyed teaching one another how to create different animals using the origami paper and have used the paint markers to add color to their 3D printing and modeling creations.
The students are excited about STEM Club each week and it is so wonderful to see them so engaged with their creative sides. Thank you for making this possible for my students!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
This classroom project was brought to life by Black History Month Partners and 3 other donors.Curious STEM Students Crave Lab-Based Light and Sound Unit
Funded May 14, 2020Thank you so much for your generous donation to our Science classroom. These materials will allow students to explore the concepts related to light and sound waves in fun, meaningful, and hands on ways.
With the tuning forks and mallets, students will be able to really feel sound waves. By touching the tuning forks to their fingers, water cups, and even noses, students will experience the vibrations personally. Students will also be able to make connections between the length of the tuning fork and the pitch of the sound, as they build an understanding of wavelength and frequency.
Students will use the graduated cylinders to learn how vibrating air creates sound. As students will the cylinders with different amounts of water, they will hear different pitches, and again make connections between the length of the sound wave and the frequencies they hear.
Students will also use the lights and gel filters to explore different ways that color and light interact. Students will learn about the primary colors of light and how those combinations make all the colors we can see. Students will use the markers to help draw models to show what they are seeing and experiencing in their labs.
Science education is most meaningful when it is hands on. Thank you for helping me provide that experience to my students this year and for years to come.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
Illuminate Our Light Unit
Funded Dec 16, 2018Thank you so much for your generous donation to our Science classroom. Your donation provided different colored lights, white lights, prisms, and other lab accessories to help students learn about light waves and color. These materials allowed the students to explore the concepts of light and color in small groups, rather than just by watching a demo or reading about it.
Thanks to your donation, students were able to see how combining two colors of light makes a new color. They were able to see how the rays of light reflect off a mirror or refract when passing through a lens. They were able to see how shining all three colors together makes the light white, and how shining the white light through the prism made a rainbow. Seeing these phenomena in real life is far more meaningful than just being told it will happen, and you made that experience possible for my students, both this year and in years to come.
The students really enjoyed the lab materials. As they worked with them throughout the unit, audible gasps and excitement was heard in the room as students actively discovered new things.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
This classroom project was brought to life by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation and 3 other donors.Bring Coding to Our STEM Club
Funded Nov 25, 2018Thank you so much for your generous donation to our classroom. My middle school students have really enjoyed coding with the new games and books. Students who were already involved in coding had new materials to work with and new students got involved as exciting new materials arrived to spark their interest. The Code Gamer and Harry Potter Coding Wand allowed students to practice coding and programming skills in a fun new way. In addition, the coding books enabled the more independent learners to work at their own pace as they completed new projects in Scratch. Thank you for allowing my students to experience coding in new and exciting ways. These materials will help students learn to code for many years.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
This classroom project was brought to life by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation and one other donor.Engineering Challenges and Coding: Help Curious STEM Students Explore Robotics
Funded Aug 30, 2018Thank you so much for your generous donations to our classroom. With these new robots, more students are getting excited about STEM. More importantly, each student gets more opportunities to interact with the robots, allowing them to deepen their driving and programming skills in a way that was not possible with fewer robots.
The students love how easy it is to get started with the robots. Students quickly move on to challenges like driving through obstacle courses and over ramps. Some students even carefully drove the robots into other classrooms to surprise their other teachers.
In addition to driving the robots, students have also started to program the robots. Yesterday, two young ladies spent a full hour programming, testing, then reprogramming their robots until they had the exact path they wanted. This process will build programming skills that will help these students throughout their entire lives.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
This classroom project was brought to life by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation and one other donor.STEM Students want to Dive into Density
Funded May 18, 2016Dear Donors,
Thank you so much for your generous donations to our classroom. Each year, I find that density is one of the trickiest concepts for my students to master, and your donations have helped me create more labs and demonstrations to help them build their understanding.
Students really enjoyed using the density blocks, marveling at how two blocks the same size could feel so vastly different. They also used the salt to explore how adding particles to a solution increases the density. Next week, students will use the water tank to explore how the density of water causes layers in the oceans, and learn how this connects to currents and weather patterns. All of these activities, and more, would not have been possible without your donations.
Thank you for helping me create a meaningful and memorable experience for my students.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
Full STEAM Ahead: Engineering Kinetic Sculptures
Funded May 18, 2016Dear Donors,
Thank you so much for your generous donations to our classroom. The students were very excited to see the kinetic sculpture materials arrive and enjoyed the challenge involved in crafting their own work.
This project enabled my students to apply what they know about electricity and motors to create their own drawing machines. Students were given little direction, other than basic guidelines and materials, and were tasked to work together to design, create, and redesign. Thank you for providing my students the materials they needed to act as true engineers. They were so proud of their finished products!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
This classroom project was brought to life by an anonymous donor and 5 other donors.Power Our Motors - Young Engineers Want To Create!
Funded May 15, 2016Dear Donors,
Thank you so much for your contributions to our classroom. The students have enjoyed learning how to connect and power a motor within a circuit, and are looking forward to creating different types of motors.
The supplies you donated to our classroom have helped my students explore motors, electricity, and magnetism in a hands-on, lab based setting, rather than just reading about motors. As you know, this creates a far more meaningful experience. Thank you for helping me provide this experiences for my students, not only this year, but for years to come.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
Electrify Our E&M Unit
Funded Dec 2, 2015Thank you so much for your generous donation to our classroom. Your donation brought batteries, wires, LEDs, breadboards, and much more to our classroom. This will help create a truly hands on experience in our electricity and magnetism unit, coming up at the end of May. As you know, Science is best learned through experimentation, and you have helped provide this for the student.
With these supplies, students will be able to create basic circuits as well as experiment with more advanced applications of circuits. Students will explore the difference between series and parallel circuits, see how adding more lamps impacts the circuit, explore relationship between electricity and magnetism. Students will also build electromagnets and motors. Your donations have made all of these experiences possible. Thank you!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler
Help Curious Scientists Create Models
Funded Dec 4, 2015Thank you so much for your generous donations to our classroom. Your donation helped bring more markers, colored pencils, pipe cleaners, foam modeling pieces, clay, notecards, colored paper, and much more to our classroom. As you know, Science is best understood when it can be visualized, modeled, and manipulated, and you helped to bring this type of learning into our classroom.
With your materials, students have already modeled DNA replication using foam pieces, drawn detailed plate tectonic maps, created visual flashcards to review vocabulary, modeled the steps of mitosis, and more. This is truly the gift that keeps giving, as much of the modeling materials will help students not only this year but for many years to come. Thank you so much for helping our classroom with these supplies!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dobler